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The Gospel of Luke

  1. Lesson One
    Overview of Luke (Luke 1-2)
    17 Activities
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    3 Assessments
  2. Lesson Two
    Savior for All Humanity (Luke 3-4, 7-8)
    21 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  3. Lesson Three
    Kingdom of Lost, Last and Least (Luke 5–6, 14:1–19:10)
    26 Activities
  4. Lesson Four
    Redemptive History (Luke 9–13, 19:11–24:53)
    13 Activities
  5. Lesson Five
    Author and Audience
    14 Activities
  6. Course Wrap-Up
    Course Completion
    1 Activity
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    1 Assessment

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The importance of motion and progress to the author of Luke and Acts is difficult to overstate. As Dr. Robert Maddox has noted in Luke and Acts “… the story of Jesus and of the Church is a story full of purposeful movement.” Of the 153 uses of the verb “to walk” in the New Testament, 81 appear in Luke and Acts. Similarly, 40 of the 101 uses of the term “way” appear in these two books.

Dr. Joel Green has suggested that the overall theme of this movement by Jesus and His followers is captured by the term for “journeying.” This is obviously the primary metaphor for the Bible Journey experience. The image of “walking” on the right “path” is covenantal language from the Old Testament. In Jewish tradition the term halakhah (walk) is the standard way of referring to the correct observance of God’s Torah. 

Sources: Joel B. Green, Conversion in Luke-Acts: Divine action, human cognition, and the people of God, 2015, pp. 62-69; Robert Maddox, The Purpose of Luke-Acts, 1982, p. 11.

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